Who is the winner of IPL 2008? Ans: Rajastan Royals…., No its BCCI.

Do you not believe? Then see below

Only Two teams make profits with maximum of 8 crores and remaining teams make losses with maximum of 45 crores. Overall loss of all franchisees is 89.4 crores. But BCCI makes profit of 350 Crores with IPL 2008 alone where as its profit for whole 2007 is 235.

Well, it’s just the first season. Owners are still finding their feet and rules are still being set down and challenged. Twenty20 is a new format and nobody expects to make a lot of money on their first year’s investment anyway. That some teams did owes a lot more to their marketing strategies, really. We’ll have to see how the climate is in 5 years time.